Threat level to Social Security reduced after Vilsack abandons candidacy

atrios points out that one of the reasons the fight against privatizing social security was successful was the fact that we never

...implicitly [bought] in to the Elite Consensus's "Social Security is in Crisis" assumption. As we pointed out, There Is No Crisis.

Going forward, it's important to put a marker down that no politician who buys into this "crisis" frame should get any support. That isn't to say we can't have a sensible discussion about possibly tweaking and improving Social Security, but that discussion should be divorced from the dishonest assertion that it needs adjustments because of long run fiscal problems.

atrios also disavows any influence he might have had on vilsack dropping out of the race...

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